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Originally Posted by jaguar
No 3rd party would work in Iraq either now, it's Iran verses the Sunnis and the kurds will do what they want, there really isn't much else to it. Anyone else getting into the fray is just going to get stung. My guess is the place will get carved up along those lines and that'll be the end of it, another failed state with the stamp of the US on it.
On the upside, the last major fuckup, Somalia, seems to be doing better these days.
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I think that when the US finally leaves Iraq (if it EVER does), it will go with the same immortal words of farewell that Rhett Butler said to Scarlett O'Hara in
Gone with the Wind : "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." The US went into Iraq with no real intelligent motive. Wag the dog, indeed. The current administration wanted to make it appear that we were responding to 9/11 in an appropriate fashion and Iraq's Saddam Hussein was a convenient straw man to create and then knock down (and, yes, I understand Saddam was hardly an angel, but neither are any number of other various country's leaders and we do nothing about THEM). What happens to the country ultimately is of no interest to the Bush people, other than what fat defense contracts they can throw the way of their buddies at Halliburton and other corporate entities which have ties with the Bush administration.
Of course, Somalia is doing better. The US is no longer there.